Burger King with worst hygiene score now has five-star rating

A recently opened Burger King edifice successful Kent has been fixed the lowest nutrient hygiene standing of immoderate of the chain’s branches successful the country.

The Tunbridge Wells tract was criticised by a nutrient hygiene inspector from the borough assembly for utilizing “dirty and greasy” equipment.

The assembly said the problems astatine the Mount Pleasant Road edifice had been fixed, and the tract had since been fixed a five-star rating.

A Burger King spokesperson said the institution took each issues regarding nutrient information and hygiene “extremely seriously”.

The nutrient hygiene inspector visited the accelerated nutrient outlet successful August and gave it a standing of 1 retired of five, meaning “major improvements” were necessary, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The study said: “The probe thermometer that you are utilizing for checking temperatures during cooking of nutrient was soiled and greasy, and truthful is not being adequately cleaned and disinfected betwixt uses.

“There is simply a hazard of cross-contamination if the probe is utilized connected nutrient that is not afloat cooked and past utilized again connected a cooked oregon acceptable to devour nutrient without capable disinfection successful between.”

The edifice has been unfastened successful the Grade II-listed gathering since August.

The municipality centre tract was antecedently occupied by WHSmith, with Burger King submitting a readying exertion to instrumentality it implicit successful September 2023.

The Burger King spokesperson added: “The biology wellness serviceman revisited the restaurant, and it present has a five-star standing aft we conducted a afloat interior audit and implemented each corrective actions.

“We are moving intimately with biology wellness officers to support this five-star rating.”